The political history of "trans" is one of strategic disclosure. We need to correspond with one another—we also need to insulate our correspondence from any onlooker who means us harm. So we've developed covert means by which to transmit ourselves to ourselves. Nobody arrives in trans life without receiving such a message—maybe one sent back, mystically, from a potential future self.
The two holes are the double-bind of disclosure. A message passes unseen between them and offers the possibility of exit.
Leyla Çolpan on "Note on Passing" |
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"Poet Quan Barry on Visualizing History Through Art"
"In confronting the often traumatic histories around her, Barry explores the very real human feelings that come with them. 'You oftentimes turn to art to find out how people were really feeling, not just what was happening,' Barry said. For Barry, art is fundamentally human. 'We create art now to show us ourselves, in a way, to know things about ourselves....To document our very short periods of time here on this planet.'"
viaTHE STUDENT LIFE |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Heather Green on Life in Public
"In 'Forgiveness,' Pinsky’s fluid, associative form moves an electron cloud of image, shadow, and fact around a heavy nucleus of a solitary voice wrestling with its own thoughts, ambitions, and ethical questions. The poem steers from Emmanuel Levinas’s lecture 'The forgiving / Of an unforgivable crime' to Pound’s poetics (and Pinsky’s revelation about duration and stress) in a whorl of motion, a record of a dynamic thought process animated, in part, by music." |
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